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Today is 22 March 2023, on this day in 1924, the UK’s first airline was launched. The company was called Imperial Airways. At the beginning of the company, there were only 13 planes, which took off and landed at London’s only Croydon Airport at the time. While flying was expensive in the early days, the initial London-Paris route was always very popular. Airplanes had short ranges at first, but it wasn’t long before planes were purpose-built to fly much longer distances. Looking back on March 22 in the history of technology, what key events happened on this day?
March 22, 1960: Arthur Schawlow and Charles Townes receive first laser patent
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American physicist Arthur Leonard Schawlow accepted a position at Bell Laboratories in late 1951; there his research focused on optics, especially laser light and its role in spectroscopy applications in , but he also works in the areas of superconductivity and nuclear resonance. Showlow then worked with Charles Hard Townes, who was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1976. Xiao Luo is also the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics. Born in Mount Vernon, New York, Showlow graduated from the University of Toronto in 1941 with a BA in Physics and Mathematics. During the war, he taught military personnel physics while earning his master’s degree.
While doing postdoctoral research at Columbia University, Showlow met Charles Townes and began their long-term collaboration on microwave spectroscopy. Schawlow and Townes sought to extend the principle that microwaves amplify electromagnetic waves to shorter wavelengths of infrared and visible light. They published a proposal for a laser in the journal Physical Review in 1958, which was patented in 1960; after the patent application was successful, they assigned it to Bell Telephone Laboratories. In 1961, Xiao Luo became a professor of physics at Stanford University; in 1981, Xiao Luo won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on laser spectroscopy. By the late 1960s, lasers had gained popularity among eye surgeons. Today, lasers are popular in many fields, including medical, defense, and communications.
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March 22, 1969: Tony Fadell, father of the Apple iPod, is born
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Anthony Michael Fadell (born March 22, 1969), nicknamed Tony Fadell; born in Detroit, Michigan, USA, Fadell is a designer, inventor, and entrepreneur with venture capitalists. From 2006 to 2008, he served as the senior vice president of Apple Computer’s iPod division, leading the development and design of the iPod, so he is called the father of the iPod. He was also involved in the development of the iPhone. After leaving Apple Computer, he founded Nest Lab.
Fadell’s father was a sales clerk, so he moved around as a child. His grandfather gave him an Apple II computer, sparking his interest in computers. In high school, Fadell started his first business, opening Quality Computers, which sold software from a friend’s basement office. After college, Fadell worked for three years at General Magic, where he worked with consumer electronics companies including Sony, Philips, Panasonic, and Toshiba on a line of personal handheld communicators, including Sony’s MagicLink. In 1995, joined Philips to develop the Velo and Nino personal digital assistants as the company’s vice president.
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After leaving Philips, Fadell joined Fuse Systems, which collapsed in 2001 during the dot-com bubble. That same year, Fadell joined Apple Computer as a business consultant. He pitched the iPod idea to Jobs, was backed by Jobs, and was hired as a contractor to design the iPod and plan Apple’s audio product strategy. Apple also began to develop the iPod, which became its flagship hot commodity; since 2005, Fadell has led the development of multi-touch screen technology, which was later applied to the iPhone released in January 2007.
In 2006, Fadell was promoted to senior vice president of Apple Computer’s iPod division. In 2008, he left Apple to spend more time with his family. In order to build his own home, he began to study the heating and cooling system of the house. In May 2010, co-founded Nest Lab with Matt Rogers, focusing on the development of smart home devices. In January 2014, Google acquired Nest Lab for $3.2 billion in cash. Nest Lab still exists as an independent brand, Tony Fadell continues to serve as CEO and can report directly to Larry Page, and another founder Matt Rogers joins the rest of Google. On June 3, 2016, Tony Fadell announced his resignation from Nest Lab.
In more than 30 years in the consumer electronics industry, Fadell has been granted more than 300 patents and has received numerous awards and recognition, including being named one of Time Magazine’s “World’s 100 Most Influential People” in 2014. In 2016, Time magazine named the Nest Learning Thermostat, iPod, and iPhone three of the “50 Most Influential Gadgets of All Time.” Today Fadell is the principal of Future Shape, a global investment and advisory firm that mentors more than 200 startups working on fundamental deep technologies.
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March 22, 1993: Pentium microprocessor begins shipping
Pentium is Intel’s new generation x86 processor brand. Intel registered it as a trademark to prevent competitors from following the previous number-naming series. Pentium was a great performance and commercial success, opening the golden age of Intel. Since then, Intel has also launched the “Celeron”, “Xeon” and “Core” series. Pentium is translated as “Pentium” in China, and Intel Inside is translated as “Give a Pentium ‘core’ to the computer”, which has become a classic advertising slogan in the industry. Today, the “Pentium” brand is still used, but the market positioning is positioned as an intermediate level higher than the low-end entry-level Celeron series and one level lower than the mainstream Core series.
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Originally, Pentium-branded CPUs were named (80)586 or i586, corresponding to how previous generations of x86 architecture processors were named: (80)286, (80)386/i386, and (80)486/ i486. However, in order to prevent competitors (such as AMD) from using similar naming methods to differentiate their x86-compatible processor products, Intel tried to register their processor names as trademarks in the United States, but due to the US trademark The bill stipulates that registered trademarks are not allowed to consist only of Arabic numerals.
Following the previous generations of 8086, 80186, 80286, 80386, and 80486 microprocessors, Intel’s fifth-generation microprocessor was named “Pentium” and launched on March 22, 1993. The microarchitecture of this processor is named “P5”. The “Pentium” trademark was designed for Intel by the Lexicon Branding trademark firm hired by Intel. The suffix “-ium” comes from the ending of the element in Latin, which is used to indicate that the Pentium CPU is a basic component of the computer, and its status simulates a chemical element; while the suffix “pent-” comes from the Greek “penta”, which means ” Fifth”, indicating the fifth generation architecture of x86.
Due to the performance and commercial success of the first-generation Pentium series, Intel has continued to use the Pentium brand for several generations of high-end processors. By 2006, Pentium had disappeared from Intel’s development roadmap, but returned in 2007. In 2006, Intel released the “Core” (Core) brand, which is used as a new brand for Intel’s flagship processor series. At this time, there are no new products in the Pentium series. In 2009, the “Dual-Core” suffix in Pentium Dual-Core was removed, returning to the old “Pentium” naming. In the future, the Pentium processor series based on the new microarchitecture will continue to use the “Pentium” trademark.
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